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Even on surface ships, the traditional command allowing smoking (the smoking lamp is lit) is not heard as much as it used to. The U.S. Navy, in 1914 (six years before Prohibition), outlawed alcohol ...
WASHINGTON The smoking lamp is going out all across the Navy’s submarine fleet, where the mission to “run silent, run deep” now will be carried out by sailors ordered to run undersea ...
The opportunity for veterans inside a VFW canteen to light up a cigarette as they nurse ... places for veterans to make the decision to ban smoking inside its buildings. Some regulars have not ...